Monthly Archives: July 2011

How co-opted are we?

So I was just reading this post (linked through P2P Foundation) about ‘Genetically Modified Grassroots Organisations’ (GMGOs) – which speaks to the organisational forms underlying the many movements, uprisings, etc. that have been unfolding in North Africa, the Middle East … Continue reading

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Hyperobjects, intra-being and partial parts: the view from within

In the last post, I started trying to decipher the structure of structural injustices understood as hyper-objects. The Lacanian Symptom and metastability were deployed to help understand both their unrelenting persistence of being and their capacity to continuously reinvent themselves … Continue reading

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The structure of structural injustice

In my previous post, I had already established that, as an object, structural injustice depends on other objects to be its parts, to serve as its matter – and in its wake it leaves behind new, modified, digested objects that … Continue reading

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structural injustices as objects

I have been thinking for a while now about structural injustices as objects – and, more specifically, as hyperobjects. Examples of structural injustices include racism, patriarchy, capitalism, climate change… the list can go on. To call an injustice ‘structural’ may … Continue reading

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